University of California-San Diego

These SoCal Colleges Turn Out Top Money Makers

If you're looking for more than a worldly education, a sense of history, and a decent grasp on literature, then you're in the right place when it comes to colleges. Yes, Southern California offers you higher education that pays. Eventually. The latest "Payscale College Salary Report," based on what ... More >>

SoCal is Tops For Socially Conscious Universities

Sure, California has its share of globally recognized universities, including Stanford, Caltech and UC Berkeley. But do we have schools that offer reasonable tuition rates (or at least some help paying for school) and a sense of social consciousness? We do. The magazine Washington Monthly recently ... More >>

SoCal Sorority Girls Dress As 'Cholas'

A Southern California sorority was under fire this week after members posted photos on social media showing some sisters dressed up as cholas and throwing fake gang signs. One thing you don't want to do on the streets of SoCal is throw up fake gang signs. Lucky for the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, di ... More >>

Drinking Too Much Makes You Stupid, But SoCal Researcher Has A Cure

We all know that drinking a lot makes you stupid. What we don't really know is if there's an antidote to this mental decline. Now a Southern California professor and her research partner from the University of Colorado at Boulder claim there just might be:

UCLA Basketball Uniforms Universally Hated

UCLA's one-off Adidas uniforms, rolled out for the school's bid at Pac-12 basketball supremacy, are supposed to "stun your opponents" and convey a sense of motion that's "crazy fast," according to the sportswear maker. But some fans think they're just plain crazy. The website Deadspin got a hold o ... More >>

Brain-Cooling Human Trials at Cedars-Sinai Help Prevent Crippling Brain Damage and Paralysis from Strokes

A groundbreaking clinical trial to prevent paralysis and death right after a stroke by cooling the brain is underway, led by Cedars Sinai, that researchers say could change everything.The trial has been boosted from 50 to 400 patients with FDA approval, and used both "controlled hypothermia" and a " ... More >>

Marijuana-Alcohol Mix Can Make Teens Dumb, SoCal Study Says

The holidays are a time of alcoholic imbibing, yes. And some of you might even smoke some stuff that looks like mistletoe. But if you're a teenager doing all of the above, look out. A new study by Southern California researchers says youths who mix toking and drinking could face "worsened neurocog ... More >>

Caltech is World's Best University; UCLA Ranks 13

Los Angeles: Home of the Playboy Bunny, Ashton Kutcher and pet spas. This we all know. But who knew that our town is where the smartest nerds in the world get their degrees on? It's true. According to the latest World University Rankings by Times Higher Education in the UK ...

UCLA Ties USC in Annual U.S. News & World Report College Rankings

UCLA is, frankly, the nerdier, more scholastic of the two crosstown rivals in Los Angeles (just look at USC's recent accolade of a top hipster college). But in recent years USC has outranked the Westwood school in U.S. News & World Report's annual battle of American academia, called "Best Colleges ... More >>

University of California Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Affirmative Action

Just call us the Bleeding Heart State: Yesterday, leading up to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas that will determine once and for all the constitutionality of considering race in university admissions, California Attorney General Kamala Harris joined the nation's most prestigious public unive ... More >>

Marijuana Has No Legit Medical Use, Feds Say; New SoCal Study Calls B.S.

Uncle Sam still doesn't recognize pot as medicine. In fact, under U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration rules, it's considered worse than cocaine: Cannabis is a top, "Schedule I" outlaw, which means it has "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and there is a lack of ac ... More >>

Guillermo Pino, Missing Anza-Borrego Hiker, Found Dead in 60-Foot Crevice; L.A. Sheriff's Detail Helps Pull Him Out

After a long, frantic month of combing hundreds of caves throughout Anza-Borrego Desert State Park for any signs of missing UC San Diego graduate Guillermo Pino, Jr., 25, he was discovered dead last Saturday at the bottom of a 60-foot crevice. Pino had gone hiking on Easter Sunday with a group of f ... More >>

Daniel Chong's 5-Day Nightmare Behind Bars Sparks Outrage for Marijuana Nation

The case of Daniel Chong, the UCSD student who was locked up by the DEA and forgotten for nearly five days as he tried to commit suicide and drank his own urine, has fired up the marijuana nation. As news hit that Chong was filing a $20 million legal claim against the DEA, Ethan Nadelmann, executiv ... More >>

Study: Regular Chocolate Eaters Are Skinnier

Katharine Hepburn once attributed her slim figure to "a lifetime of chocolate." Now a new study from UC San Diego has found that people who eat chocolate on a regular basis are indeed thinner than those who don't. The findings from the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, were publish ... More >>

Diversity Programs at UC, Cal State Universities Blasted by Critics Who Say Budget Cuts Should Affect All

Chicano Studies Reader​A small group of educators is pissed that California's epic cuts to its higher education system don't seem to be affecting diversity programs as much as the rest. This amid reports that UC students could see $22,000-year tuition within four years. Of course, that kind o ... More >>

Radiation From Japan Ended up in Southern California, UC San Diego Researchers Confirm

​Researchers at UC San Diego confirmed today that radiation from quake-and-tsunami-damaged Fukushima reactors reached Southern California. Though other tests have determined that minuscule amounts of nuclear material reached our shores, this one was trumpeted by USCD as "the first quantitativ ... More >>

Dark Chocolate May Improve Athletic Endurance

Flickr/oskay​A new study shows that consuming dark chocolate may help athletic endurance, the New York Times' Well blog reported August 3. Scientists at UC San Diego and other institutions gave middle-aged, sedentary male mice a purified form of cacao's primary nutritional ingredient, epicat ... More >>

OECD Report: Mexicans Work Harder Than You

Who's lazy now, betch?​Take that, Slowpoke Rodriguez. The stereotype of Mexicans as drunk, lazy fuck-ups is easily debunked in California by a trip to the town square or Home Depot parking lot, but finally some researchers step in to quiet the racist anti-immigration crazies with cold hard fa ... More >>

Panties on Craigslist -- Used, Worn and, Well, Sometimes Wet -- Are The Latest Sign of a Down Economy in L.A.

An actual photo from Craigslist.​By Dennis Romero and Keith Plocek You know times are hard when people -- well, women, mostly (we hope) -- resort to selling their used panties for profit. Pre-owned ladies' undergarments seem to be a hot industry on Craigslist, where we're spotting more and m ... More >>

'Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration' App as Non-PC as They Come (Glitch: 100s of Anchor Babies Spill From Truck Bed)

YouTubeAdditional "cargo" pops out along the way​"Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration," the self-proclaimed "premiere smuggling game on the App Store" (we'd hate to see all the not premiere ones) has initiated a half-assed online debate over how lightly the border-hopping situation between Me ... More >>

Kiplinger's best value colleges: UCLA makes the list

​Several University of California schools are among the nation's best deals and offer the most bang for the buck. According to Kiplinger's annual list of the 100 best bargains among the country's public colleges, no UC school makes the top ten, but several do make the cut. Which ones, you ask?

The Great Latke vs. Hamantash Debate

Like the profoundest of profound intellectual quandaries, the latke vs. hamantash debate may never be fully resolved. Since 1946, when Hillel House at University of Chicago sponsored the first annual debate pitting potato pancakes against triangular cookies, great minds -- like Nobel Prize-winnin ... More >>

Mexican Macro-economics

Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?

Scientists Link Obesity to Viral Infection

Flickr/blue.tofu​ You mean it's not the foie gras with truffle oil on a bed of fettuccine? New research suggests that obesity may be caused by a contagious virus related to the common cold virus, the (UK) Independent reported Sept. 21. Scientists at UC San Diego say the discovery of this str ... More >>

Tonight: Natalie Merchant, Odeum Guitar Duo, Wild Beasts, Lone Wolf

​Natalie Merchant at the Orpheum Theatre "Natalie Merchant manages to make what would seem to be a stuffy premise -- putting new melodies to the classic words of dead poets -- into the most sonically adventurous project of her career. Known more as a singer and lyricist, she proves to be uncan ... More >>

GET YOUR "COMBUSTIBLE ENERGY" WITH ODEUM, NOT IMODIUM

Dishing Up Mexican

Manny Farber, 1917-2008

Critic's passing leaves a Space

Secure Borders? Try Fenced In

With $860 million spending sprees, high-tech surveillance towers that don't work and Operation Streamline show trials, it's still the same old catch-and-release game

The Encyclopedic City

Michael Govan wants to change the face of L.A. What are you going to do to help him?

The Art Apartments

Elk Gallery show at the Regency Hotel

Stone, Warm, Sober

From laughing gas to nonalcoholic beer: Robert Stone in the ’60s and today

Must See Art

Super/Sonic 2006 Part II at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park

Spinal Column

Eye Contact

Lorna Simpson’s politics of engagement

Digital Universe

With L.A. at its center

Let’s Roll!

Fun with gravity on our city’s finest grassy hills

Hurricane of the Eye

Artist Tim Hawkinson’s maelstrom of twisted fun

The Discovery of California

A memoir

Iannis and the Big Bang

Lady of the Lamps

The Colors Made Audible

Polka Dot Uptown Girl

Making it

The Edge of the World As We Know It

Notes on the second annual Los Angeles Edgefest

Frigid Eyre, Cool Duke

The bizarre alchemy of musicals

A Choir of Angels

L.A.'s classical music scene

Student Union

Taking No Prisoners

Roll Over, Beethoven

Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Performance art and the Schimmel effect